RT Article
T1 The importance of empathic communication in dialog process
JF Journal of religious culture
A1 Yıldız, Murat
LA English
PB Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1780954417
AB When we observe today’s world, we can safely say that tensions and clashes still continue and that some of them arise from interreligious and intercultural conflicts. In search of a safer future world, man, naturally, looks for a solution. In this context, it is thought that empathic communication model will contribute greatly to the reduction of prejudices and to the formation of a healthy interreligious and intercultural dialog process. The aim of this study is to draw attention towards the importance of learning and teaching of empathic communication skills as a procedural method in interreligious and intercultural relations. In this study, emphasis was placed upon communication conflicts and prejudices and contributions that empathic communication can make in the reduction of prejudices were outlined.
K1 Empathic communication
K1 communication conflicts
K1 intercultural dialog
K1 interreligious dialog
K1 Prejudices